Martin S. Banks

Professor of Optometry and Vision Science; Affiliate Professor of Psychology and Bioengineering

Visual space perception; virtual environments

My research involves three topics:

1. The use of motion and stereoscopic information to determine the spatial layout of the visible environment and one's motion through that environment.
2. The combination of information from more than one sense modality (e.g., vision and touch).
3. The construction and evaluation of devices for creating useful virtual environments (e.g., vision, vestibular, and touch).

In all cases, we are particularly interested in determining how efficiently human observers utilize the available stimulus information while performing perceptual tasks and also in applying the results to emerging technologies such as virtual reality.

Selected Publications

Banks, M.S., Ghose, T. & Hillis, J.M. (2004). Relative image size, not eye position, determines eye dominance switches. Vision Research, 44, 3, 229-234.

Hillis, J.M., Watt, S.J., Landy, M.S. & Banks, M.S. (2004). Slant from texture and disparity cues: optional cue combination. Journal of Vision, 4, 1-3.

Banks, M.S., Gepshtein, S. & Landy, M.S. (2004). Why is spatial stereoresolution so low? Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 2077-2089.

Banks, M.S. (2004). What you see and hear is what you get. Current Biology, 14, R236-R238.

Gepshtein, S. and Banks, M.S. (2003). Viewing geometry determines how vision and haptics combine in size perception. Current Biology, 13, 6, 483-488.

Stone, L.S., Miles, F.A. & Banks, M.S. (2003). Linking eye movements and perception. Journal of Vision, 3, 11, i-iii.

Suttle, C.M., Banks, M.S., & Graf, E.W. (2002). FPL and sweep VEP to tritan stimuli in young human infants. Vision Research, 42, 2879-2891.

Hillis, J.M., Ernst, M.O., Banks, M.S. & Landy, M.S.(2002). Combining Sensory Information: Mandatory Fusion Within, but Not Between Senses. Science, 298, 1627-1630.

Ernst, M.O. & Banks, M.S. (2002). Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal way. Nature, 415, 429-433.

Adams, W.J., Banks, M.S., & van Ee, R. (2001). Adaptation to 3D distortions in human vision. Nature Neuroscience, 4, 1063-1064.

Banks, M.S., Hooge, I.T.C., & Backus, B.T. (2001). Perceiving slant about a horizontal axis from stereopsis. Journal of Vision, 1, 55-79.

Hillis, J.M. & Banks, M.S. (2001). Are corresponding points fixed? Vision Research, 41, 2457-2473.

James, F.M.K., Whitehead, S., Humphrey, G.K., Banks, M.S., & Vilis, T. (2001). Eye position sense contributes to the judgement of slant. Vision Research, 41, 3447-3454.

Domini, F., Adams, W., & Banks, M.S. (2001). 3D aftereffects are due to shape and not disparity adaptation. Vision Research, 41, 2733-2739.

Freeman, T.C.A. Crowell, J.A. & Banks, M.S. (2000) Extra-retinal and retinal amplitude and phase errors during Filehne illusion and path perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 900-909.

Ernst, M.0., Banks, M.S., & Bülthoff, H.H. (2000). Touch can change visual slant perception. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 69-73.

For more, please click on Additional Publications and PDF files.

Links

The Banks Lab Web Site

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